Kerry Washington’s duty to ‘be engaged’

ABC’s Washington-based “Scandal” drama has become must-see TV for politicos, and its lead actress, Kerry Washington, has found herself more and more in political circles, most notably during her 2012 speech at the Democratic National Convention.

Washington was asked about her recent political involvement in an interview with Deadline.com, that posted Monday.

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“It’s important for me to be clear that I don’t engage politically because I’m in the public eye,” Washington said. “I actually made a promise to myself early on that I would not stop because I was in the public eye, because I feel like it’s my responsibility as an American to be engaged.”